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For the jimp | Team demonstrates solar water-splitting technology

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From	Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Subject	For the jimp \| Team demonstrates solar water-splitting technology
Date	2015-09-05 08:53 -0500
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Team demonstrates solar water-splitting technology
> http://phys.org/news/2015-09-team-solar-water-splitting-technology.html


> Rice University researchers have demonstrated an efficient new way to
> capture the energy from sunlight and convert it into clean, renewable
> energy by splitting water molecules.

> The technology, which is described online in the American Chemical
> Society journal Nano Letters, relies on a configuration of
> light-activated gold nanoparticles that harvest sunlight and transfer
> solar energy to highly excited electrons, which scientists sometimes
> refer to as "hot electrons."

> "Hot electrons have the potential to drive very useful chemical
> reactions, but they decay very rapidly, and people have struggled to
> harness their energy," said lead researcher Isabell Thomann,
> assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and of
> chemistry and materials science and nanoengineering at Rice. "For
> example, most of the energy losses in today's best photovoltaic solar
> panels are the result of hot electrons that cool within a few
> trillionths of a second and release their energy as wasted heat."

> Capturing these high-energy electrons before they cool could allow
> solar-energy providers to significantly increase their
> solar-to-electric power-conversion efficiencies and meet a national
> goal of reducing the cost of solar electricity.


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For the jimp | Team demonstrates solar water-splitting technology Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 08:53 -0500
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    Re: ass hat's latest breatheless press release Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 16:11 -0500
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        Re: Team demonstrates solar water-splitting technology Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 19:15 -0500
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              Re: Team demonstrates solar water-splitting technology "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 14:48 -0700
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